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WATER DEVELOPMENT IN BEAVER AND VICINITY
When the first pioneers came to this valley, it is said that one could step across the Beaver River in almost any locality. But through years of effort and planning, the water resources have developed to an astonishing degree.
Many agencies are responsible for the additional capacities and to trace the history our story must take us back to the earliest times when the men who dug the first ditches to fields began the work. Later, when the town was established and organized, it was necessary to apportion regular water rights to each section, thence to each block, thence to each lot holder, so a system of distribution through canals and ditches, together with regular water turns by hours, was devised.
People began by 1890 to dig culinary wells and each householder soon had a fine rocked-up well, which not only served to supply water, but served him also for refrigeration.
Ambition to utilize additional acreage soon resulted in plans to increase water supplies throughout the Valley and other new developments through the new power companies' activities, over a period of years, have brought about the improvement in lake storage, reservoir storage and many catch basins, until now there is a vast network throughout our mountain lands. This helps materially to insure a more even flow of waters during the summer months.
Irrigation and canal companies were organized to facilitate better distribution of water and to insure more efficient use. The Kent's Lake Company was formed, and an embankment was erected in three areas to impound early runoff for later seasonal use. The Mammoth Canal Company was organized to take advantage of "high waters" in season and a huge canal was dug to carry the water to bench land formerly out of reach of irrigation.

WATER DEVELOPMENT IN BEAVER AND VICINITY
When the first pioneers came to this valley, it is said that one could step across the Beaver River in almost any locality. But through years of effort and planning, the water resources have developed to an astonishing degree.
Many agencies are responsible for the additional capacities and to trace the history our story must take us back to the earliest times when the men who dug the first ditches to fields began the work. Later, when the town was established and organized, it was necessary to apportion regular water rights to each section, thence to each block, thence to each lot holder, so a system of distribution through canals and ditches, together with regular water turns by hours, was devised.
People began by 1890 to dig culinary wells and each householder soon had a fine rocked-up well, which not only served to supply water, but served him also for refrigeration.
Ambition to utilize additional acreage soon resulted in plans to increase water supplies throughout the Valley and other new developments through the new power companies' activities, over a period of years, have brought about the improvement in lake storage, reservoir storage and many catch basins, until now there is a vast network throughout our mountain lands. This helps materially to insure a more even flow of waters during the summer months.
Irrigation and canal companies were organized to facilitate better distribution of water and to insure more efficient use. The Kent's Lake Company was formed, and an embankment was erected in three areas to impound early runoff for later seasonal use. The Mammoth Canal Company was organized to take advantage of "high waters" in season and a huge canal was dug to carry the water to bench land formerly out of reach of irrigation.